Seaward’s most advanced portable appliance tester has been awarded a UK patent, recognising its unique ability to combine formal visual inspections and all required electrical testing as part of a formal safety risk assessment process. The Apollo 600 incorporates many special features in line with HSE guidance to ensure that the inspection and testing of workplace electrical appliances is proportionate to the safety risks presented.
As well as an onboard risk assessment tool to determine re-test intervals, the PAT tester incorporates a built-in digital camera, enabling high quality images to be tagged against appliance test records. As well as storing test results against a unique appliance identification number, the camera enables comprehensive and traceable electrical safety records to be maintained and future test programmes to be managed.
The Apollo 600 incorporates all electrical safety tests required by the IET Code of Practice, plus additional test functions, including the ability to test fixed appliances.
For those with more general responsibility for health and safety inspections, the Apollo 600’s universal risk assessment tool enables other workplace hazards to be determined, inspected and recorded – eg: fire detection, alarm systems and emergency lighting – with the ability to output a wide range of safety labels, test reports and certificates for each.
